[fpc-pascal] Warning not to use the "String" type with FPC 3.x

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Mon May 9 15:16:30 CEST 2016


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote on Mon, 09 May 2016:

> On 2016-05-09 13:11, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>> tests/test/units/unitname
>
> What I've created are FPCUnit based unit tests. Looking a bit further,
> what I'm looking for seems to be in tests/test/units/fpcunit/

If these are tests for non-core units (basically nothing that's in the  
RTL directory), that's fine. RTL tests should not depend on FPCUnit,  
because FPCUnit itself may depend on those RTL units functioning  
correctly, which would create a rather annoying catch-22 in case  
something breaks.


Jonas



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